The Keller Williams South Florida region is currently recruiting for the following positions:

General Manager Opportunities in South FloridaWe are looking for high-minded General Manager candidates for multiple Market Center owners in South Florida. Must be a current or former KW leader with a proven track record of success. KW Team Leader experience a plus. Please send DISC and KPA if available to tampabayleader@gmail.com.

Looking for Talented Team Leaders South Florida is growing! We have several Team Leader opportunities in the South Florida Region – from Tampa Bay to the Keys. East and West Coast opportunities available! Please send DISC and KPA if available to tampabayleader@gmail.com.

Market Center Administrator – South Florida RegionWe are seeking candidates with strong leadership and management skills, who value and consistently deliver a high level of customer service, and who also have proven accounting skills. The ideal candidates should email their resume, salary requirements, and KPA (if available) to tampabayleader@gmail.com.

Experienced agents Jeff Chenore and Melissa Vianni know what it takes to be successful real estate leaders. As partners in the Pembroke Pines-based Chenore Group, the duo has created a thriving residential real estate business built on the pillars of client satisfaction and innovation.

“We are excited the Chenore Group has joined forces with us at Keller Williams,” said Alfredo Pujol, team leader of the Pembroke Pines Market Center. “One of the keys to this partnership was our company culture and team growth opportunities we see in the values they provide to their customers. We are thrilled and look forward to this exciting new chapter of growth together.”

After two decades of working with another brokerage, why would the team move to Keller Williams?

“What mainly prompted our move was the vision of growth,” said Melissa. “Jeff and I were with our previous company for a very long time and getting out of our comfort zone was imperative to continue our team success. Keller Williams’ culture is refreshing and inspires us to work harder and smarter to continue to provide our clients with excellent service.”

“We are thrilled to bring all that Keller Williams offers to the Miami Lakes agents and community, and are excited to be the company of choice for top agents and their teams,” said Natascha Tello, operating principal.

Launched in mid-February, the Miami Lakes Market Center has already recruited nearly 50 agents and brought in more than $106 million in production.

“When we opened, we instantly became the highest producing office in Miami Lakes,” said Marietta Mont, a 27-year resident and team leader for Florida’s newest market center. “I am honored to be part of the core team that is bringing Keller Williams to Miami Lakes. Being able to support our associates and this community is a dream come true.”

The new market center’s top two agents produced $20 million last year and are now on track to produce $48 million in 2019. Another agent, in just two months of joining the market center, is expecting to double his production this year.

Why did this new market attract so many top associates and hit the ground running?

“Keller Williams’ culture of putting the agents first makes it easy for us to be successful,” Marietta said. “By focusing on our agents’ needs and using Keller Williams’ sophisticated technology systems and models, we help our agents achieve their independent business goals and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Profit and growth are simply the byproducts of our approach.”

Thank you to all who participated in our March 19 Inspirational Morning! We celebrated the acts of kindness that bonded us together over the past year. Witnessing the courage, compassion, and charity of our agents and associates is a reminder of why our Keller Williams South Florida family continues to have such a positive impact on our communities.

There were over 400 agents and associates who came together for music, inspirational stories, and celebrating awards for top agents.

We learned about the emotionally powerful and uplifting story of Katie Lechner who suffered a horrific car accident last fall. Doctors told her she only had a 30-40 percent chance of survival. Katie’s KW Melbourne family came together to support Katie in her recovery and raising nearly $15,000 to offset medical expenses.

Our Coral Springs Market Center refused to let Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School be defined by tragedy. The associates have a special bond with their community and led a RED Day Walk-a-Thon that raised more than $53,000 for the school. They also worked with the alumni association to host a summer stay-cation for teachers as well as a gratitude breakfast for 250 administrators, teachers, and staff. In addition, Coral Springs associates partnered with the “Value-Up” program to present specialized breakout sessions for at-risk students, students in Leadership, teachers, staff, and parents at Westglades Middle School.

Coral Springs associates partnering with the community to help Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School overcome tragedy.

This amazing outreach and show of support is the epitome of what a group of Keller Williams associates can do to have an impact on the community—not just selling homes but touching lives.

Kent Temple shares team-building strategies.

Kent Temple, CEO of the Temple Team and KW International Master Faculty, shared his hard-earned secrets of team-building success with his outstanding presentation on how to “Leverage and Build a Top Talent Team for 2019.”

We were proud to recognize the following honorees in our 2018 Regional Awards:

Alex fostered the relationship with the seller for several years before brokering the sale of the fully leased investment medical office portfolio.

“This deal was the culmination of the training I received over the last three years from Coach Cook and Keller Williams Commercial,” Alex said. “The educational environment, mentoring and KW Commercial tools are what put me into the position to successfully represent such a large investment sale.”

A Florida native with a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Florida, Alex joined Keller Williams in 2016 after he decided to pursue a career in commercial real estate.

“I checked out several brokerages and realized KW offered a lot for new and even experienced agents,” Alex said. “Getting started in commercial real estate is not easy, but under good mentorship, I’ve learned so much about commercial real estate and the business. It’s been an outstanding boots-on-the-ground experience.”

Keller Williams allowed Alex to start earning commissions during his first year on the team. “Working here has been the best of both worlds. I have access to the Keller Williams Commercial name brand and their incredible tools and resources. Plus, the capping system is outstanding, and those better splits are why I see a lot more experienced agents leave their brokerages to join us.”

Alex’s advice to agents wanting to follow in his footsteps?

“Foster relationships with people you already know,” he said. “You can cold call all you want, but nothing beats reaching out to your existing network. And, join Keller Williams and find an experienced mentor. It makes all the difference in your business and career. You can still have your own business while being part of the Keller Williams family.”

When you’re already leading a successful real estate team that has had between $60-$80 million a year in sales for the past 20 years, why would you need Keller Williams?

“It’s simple. We want to take our business to the next level,” said Jack Prenner of The Prenner Real Estate Group in Lighthouse Point. “We typically carry around 40-50 listings each month and have taken decades to build our extensive network of buyers, sellers, and investors. We could go anywhere, but partnering with Keller Williams and their technology platforms will allow us to take our team to even higher levels of achievement.”

Jack, along with his wife and business partner Cathy, has built a remarkable team of seven that closed $70 million over the past 12 months. Over the years, they’ve been courted by several large brokerages, but none had the tools and vision of Keller Williams.

“We’ve always been impressed with Keller Williams’ ability to embrace change,” Cathy said. “They seem always to be asking themselves how they can better serve their agents so the agents can better serve their clients. That focus and commitment to agents have always resonated with us.

“Plus, our daughter, Robyn Phipps of The Phipps Team in Arvada, Colorado, has a successful Keller Williams team and had been encouraging us to join.”

Over the years, Jack and Cathy had also attended various Keller Williams training events and witnessed the extraordinary value in the company’s culture, technology, and resources.

“It may sound cliche, but we’ve always embraced the company’s Belief System and values of God, Family, then Business,” Jack said.

The couple has three children and 14 grandchildren — with two adopted from China and two from Ethiopia.

“People entrust us with the most expensive thing they own, their home,” Cathy said. “It’s a privilege to earn that trust, and we’ve always had a strong commitment to doing everything better today than we did yesterday. That philosophy matches what we’ve seen at Keller Williams, and we’re looking forward to enhancing that partnership in the years to come.”

We recently launched a new market center in Doral with 55 agents joining the team in the last 90 days!

“With our new market center comes increased access to the area’s booming commercial and residential markets, powered by an international flair that is the city of Doral in Miami-Dade County.

“This significant opening highlights Keller Williams’ unparalleled world-class training, heart-felt culture, and agent-enabled technology. It is exhilarating knowing our agents will have access to the leading tools in the industry powered by the #1 real estate company in the world.”

“One of the main reasons we brought our successful team to Keller Williams was because the organization’s culture is focused on family and community,” said P.J. McLoughlin, a team lead who recently left an independent brokerage to join the Keller Williams market center in Melbourne, Fla.

“In addition, Keller Williams was created by an agent for agents and it shows in everything they do,” McLoughlin added. “From the technology to the training, that agent-centric focus is the driving force that makes a business successful.”

McLoughlin, who has been a real estate agent since 2013, moved to Florida from the world’s tech center of Silicon Valley. He and his team have reached more than $50 million in total sales over the last 12 months.

The team also represents one of Brevard County’s top custom home builders, DiPrima Homes, selling 330 units in 2017-2018.

“Keller Williams’ focus on technology and how that can be used to help agents held a strong interest for me,” McLoughlin said. “In addition, training is the backbone of their culture. The organization is always striving and working to help agents build better careers and lead meaningful lives.”

]]>Profiles of Success: Ariadne Regueira & Ivan Saldiashttps://kwopportunity.com/2019/profiles-success-ariadne-regueira-ivan-saldias/
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 18:30:07 +0000http://kwopportunity.com/?p=5109At Keller Williams, we thrive on helping our clients and our agents fulfill their dreams. Although the journey of becoming a Keller Williams agent is a personal one, there are lessons to be learned from those whose hard work and sense of shared purpose have brought them to the highest levels of success.

Ariadne: I remember that since I was a little girl back in Cuba I was fascinated by houses, building, etc… and my father always talked to me to be wise and invest buying real estate. Then after a couple of year in U.S.A., I started investing in real estate and then I became a REALTOR®.

Ivan: I decided to jump onto real Estate back on 2006 right before the market crash. Crazy me, right?

The dynamics of the real estate market matches my personality and the viability to handle your own time and destiny is fine to me. It is very gratifying when people’s dream come to reality and you realized that you were a part of the process.

Why did you want to join Keller Williams?

Ariadne: I wanted to take my business and the relationship with our customers to the next level of service and performance, so we looked for the number one real estate company in the country and Keller Williams is the number one.

Ivan: As a growing team we were facing the issue of not having the best models and systems in place to support our team’s expansion. Looking for the best, we came across Gary Keller’s book, The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, and fell in love the Four Models he described. We decided to follow those models and join KW.

What have you liked most about working as part of the Keller Williams team?

Ariadne: I studied computer science, so I’m very structured and organized. I believe that if we implement Keller Williams models and systems by the books, and with all the experience that we have, we can expect great things to happen to our team in the near feature.

Ivan: Keller Williams models and systems are the best in the industry and the inclusion of their agents to participate to improve the systems through Labs is phenomenal. Also, the constant educational training at all levels helps you to be on top of the game.

If we asked your clients why they work with you, what would they say?

Ariadne: Our clients could say that we are very experienced and acknowledge that, as real estate agents, we are good negotiators, very ethical, have exceptional integrity, and are always going the extra mile.

Ivan: They will tell you that we’re very passionate, that we love what we do, are always on the go, on top of our business, reachable most of the time, and are caring for our client’s best interests.

Based on your experience, what advice would you give to new agents?

Ariadne: Be committed, work hard, get out your comfort zone, copy models and systems, follow experienced REALTORs® and focus on your database first.

Ivan: Treat all your clients like they are part of your family, with the respect they deserve, think first about giving before receiving and work for relationships, not for transactions. Put your heart in everything you do and be humble.

“I was so honored and humbled to be part of such an intelligent group of the best Keller Williams’ agents. I was enlightened to hear so many Mega Agents share their models, their mistakes, what they have done to overcome weaknesses and grow themselves and their teams to reach higher levels of success. It truly makes me feel human at the end of the day, knowing that I am not the only one that falls forward and constantly changes models to make myself and my team grow and reach higher levels. It is a constant challenge, and positive mindset and surrounding yourself with the best truly go a long way.

“Thank you again for having me! I cannot even tell you how many agents have reached out to me after the panel and came to me with questions, asked for mentorship, and truly wanted to know and understand how I have succeeded myself in such a short period of time. I always get the most out of listening to others on my panel and am enlightened to learn from the best. Sharing my own experiences is truly humbling when I receive the feedback that I have from last week’s mastermind. I now have three agents I met in South Florida, who I will be coaching on a monthly basis to help grow their businesses and get to the next level, (all on a volunteer basis). ”

“One of my mentors always says, you grow into the conversations that you surround yourself with. That’s what these Masterminds are all about, surrounding yourself with those you aspire to be like and then inspire those around you with that knowledge. Put the knowledge into action to make your life and business the best it can possibly be!”

“The Mega Agent Mastermind was a life-changing event for me and my team. The world-class coaches helped us to explore our businesses, and our lives, from the bottom up. We learned more in one day than we would have been able to learn in six months on our own.”